The following subfigures are not real subfigures, but I will call them pseudo-subfigures, since I would like to have captions above them like one can easily do with real subfigures.
However, I would not like to use real subfigures (decided after having many compatibility issues, which I can not all remember).
Here might be some of the reasons why one would prefer to use pseudo-subfigures (I might be wrong, as my memory fails):
- It seems that it is a big chore (cf. Forcing subfigures to have same height and take overall X% of linewidth in LaTeX) to have real subfigures of equal height, while there is no labour with the pseudo-subfigures & (if wanted together with the previous) it seems to be even a bit more difficult to have sugfigures placed closely against each-other (cf. Reduction of Space between two Sub-figures).
- I think using real subfigures would also conflict with having the footnotes there...
- Somehow some other compatibility issue would appear, with some of the featured list items in relation to having the custom figurer environment (cf. code). In any way, I will use the figurer environment for each figure in my document of purpose, and thus will also use its numberings. Therefor, in casu, I would not like to revert to using real main figure captions.
MWE
P.S.: You need to compile this with LuaLaTex...
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}% images from mwe package
\usepackage[framemethod=tikz]{mdframed}
\usetikzlibrary{calc}
\newcounter{picture}
%%%%% figurer environment
\newmdenv[
hidealllines=true,
innertopmargin=16pt,
innerbottommargin=10pt,
leftmargin=0cm,
rightmargin=0cm,
skipabove=10pt,
skipbelow=10pt,
singleextra={
\coordinate (aux) at ( $ (O)!0.5!(P) $ );
\fill[rounded corners=6pt,line width=1pt,blue!30]
(O|-P) --
(aux|-P) --
([yshift=12pt]aux|-P) --
([yshift=12pt,xshift=4cm]aux|-P) --
([xshift=4cm]aux|-P) --
(P) {[sharp corners] --
([yshift=-6pt]P) --
([yshift=-6pt]O|-P) } -- cycle;
\draw[rounded corners=6pt,line width=1pt,blue]
(O|-P) --
(aux|-P) --
([yshift=12pt]aux|-P) --
([yshift=12pt,xshift=4cm]aux|-P) --
([xshift=4cm]aux|-P) --
(P) --
(P|-O) --
(O) -- cycle;
\node at ([xshift=2cm,yshift=3pt]aux|-P)
{\refstepcounter{picture}\large Figure~\thepicture} ;
},
firstextra={
\coordinate (aux) at ( $ (O)!0.5!(P|-O) $ );
\fill[rounded corners=6pt,line width=1pt,blue!30,overlay]
(O|-P) --
(aux|-P) --
([yshift=12pt]aux|-P) --
([yshift=12pt,xshift=4cm]aux|-P) --
([xshift=4cm]aux|-P) --
(P) {[sharp corners] --
([yshift=-6pt]P) --
([yshift=-6pt]O|-P) } -- cycle;
\draw[rounded corners=6pt,line width=1pt,blue,overlay]
(O) --
(O|-P) --
(aux|-P) --
([yshift=12pt]aux|-P) --
([yshift=12pt,xshift=4cm]aux|-P) --
([xshift=4cm]aux|-P) --
(P) --
(P|-O);
\node[overlay] at ([xshift=2cm,yshift=3pt]aux|-P)
{\refstepcounter{picture}\large Figure~\thepicture} ;
},
middleextra={
\draw[rounded corners=6pt,line width=1pt,blue,overlay]
(O|-P) --
(O);
\draw[rounded corners=6pt,line width=1pt,blue,overlay]
(P) --
(P|-O);
},
secondextra={
\coordinate (aux) at ( $ (O)!0.5!(P|-O) $ );
\draw[rounded corners=6pt,line width=1pt,blue,overlay]
(O|-P) --
(O) --
(P|-O) --
(P);
},
]{figurer}
%%%%% begin the beguine
\begin{document}
\begin{figurer}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[height=1cm]{example-image}
\includegraphics[height=1cm]{example-image}
\includegraphics[height=1cm]{example-image}
\includegraphics[height=1cm]{example-image}
\includegraphics[height=1cm]{example-image}
This would be my caption here (We can even have footnotes here).\footnote{I like how the footnote stays inside the figure box.}
\end{center}
\end{figurer}
\end{document}
Is it somehow possible to have pseudo-subcaptions above each pseudo-subfigure? They don't need to be numbered anything: thus no need for a), b), c) etc...
Let's imagine the pictures are from a person, and one would simply briefly like to indicate the age of the person above each image?
P.S.: I would like to have a dynamic solution, which would work with any number of pictures (at least any number of pictures on 1 line), while all pictures (at least on 1 line) can be of equal (but differing per MWE) height.
Please note that the text "This would be my caption here" is considered a "pseudo-caption" of the main "pseudo-figure" here, not a caption of any seperate "pseudo-subfigure".
